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  • THE AGE OF UNPEACE
    THE AGE OF UNPEACE
    MARK LEONARD
    A FINANCIAL TIMES ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Compulsively readable... An essential course in geopolitical self-help' - Adam Tooze'Full of fresh - and often surprising - ideas' - Niall Ferguson'Extraordinary... One of those rare books that defines the terms of our conversation about our times' - Michael IgnatieffWe thought connecting the world would bring lasting peace. Instead,...
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  • DAISY HAITES: THE GREAT UNDOING
    DAISY HAITES: THE GREAT UNDOING
    JESSA HASTINGS
    "It's the great undoing of my heart as I know it." Daisy Haites thought she'd left everything about her old life in the past: the crime, her family and the man she loves. But when her safety is threatened once again, she finds herself back under the watchful eyes of her gang-lord brother Julian and her ex-boyfriend Christian, both desperate to keep her safe. Everything gets m...
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  • OUT OF THE ORDINARY
    OUT OF THE ORDINARY
    JON RONSON
    Jon Ronson's subjects have included people who believe that goats can be killed by the power of a really hard stare, and people who believe that the world is ruled by twelve-foot lizard-men. In Out of the Ordinary, a collection of his journalism from the Guardian, he turns his attention to irrational beliefs much closer to home, investigating the ways in which we sometimes mana...
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  • THE MISFORTUNES OF VIRTUE AND OTHER EARLY TALES
    THE MISFORTUNES OF VIRTUE AND OTHER EARLY TALES
    MARQUIS DE SADE
    The name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the human soul, a byword for all that is foulest in human conduct. In his bleak, claustrophobic universe, there is no God, no morality, no human affection, and no hope. Power is given to the strong, and the strong are murderers, torturers, and tyrants. No quarter is given; compassion is the virtue of the...
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  • THRONE OF SECRETS
    THRONE OF SECRETS
    KERRI MANISCALCO
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LOVE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ADVENTURE OF ALL . . . Two rivals torn apart by a dark memory reunite on a deadly hunt - and in an irresistibly twisted fairy tale - in the next steamy standalone fantasy romance from New York Times bestselling sensation Kerri Maniscalco. A SINFUL PRINCE. Prince Gluttony - self-proclaimed rake of rakes - lives for indulg...
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  • GENDER SWAPPED GREEK MYTHS
    GENDER SWAPPED GREEK MYTHS
    KARRIE FRANSMAN / JONATHAN PLACKETT
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  • EMPIRE OF THE SUN
    EMPIRE OF THE SUN
    J. G. BALLARD
    Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come.. ...
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  • SMALL PLACES, LARGE ISSUES
    SMALL PLACES, LARGE ISSUES
    THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN
    'Remains among the most brilliant summaries of key ideas animating anthropology. In his famously accessible writing style, Eriksen introduces fundamental questions that shape human life, and provides an overview of the discipline's contribution to the pressing issues of our times. A must-read' Ursula Rao, Director, Anthropology of Politics and Governance, Max Planck Institute f...
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  • A TIME OF COURAGE
    A TIME OF COURAGE
    JOHN GWYNNE
    Battle the dark Reclaim the world The King of the Otherworld is finally free. Armed with fearsome new starstone weapons, Asroth prepares to lead his demonic war-host south. And with the help of his bride, Fritha, he plans to crush the warrior-angels and their allies for good. In the shadows of Forn Forest, Riv and the surviving Ben-Elim hold a war council ??- desperate to unite...
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  • DAISY HAITES: THE GREAT UNDOING
    DAISY HAITES: THE GREAT UNDOING
    JESSA HASTINGS
    THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE MAGNOLIA PARKS UNIVERSE FROM BOOKTOK ROMANCE SENSATION JESSA HASTINGS. "It's the great undoing of my heart as I know it." Daisy Haites thought she'd left everything about her old life in the past: the crime, her family and the man she loves. But when her safety is threatened once again, she finds herself back under the watchful eyes of her gang-lor...
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  • GOLDEN BOY
    GOLDEN BOY
    ABIGAIL TARTTELIN
    Max Walker: blue-eyed boy or girl next door? To the outside world, Max Walker is a golden boy: a loving son and brother, the perfect student, captain of the football team and every girl's dream boyfriend. But Max was born intersex - neither fully boy nor fully girl. Now something terrible has happened to him, the consequences of which have left him questioning his true identity...
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  • DORK DIARIES: SKATING SENSATION
    DORK DIARIES: SKATING SENSATION
    RACHEL RENÉE RUSSELL
    Welcome to Nikki Maxwell's aDORKable world and the mega-selling Dork Diaries series - now with over 50 million copies in print worldwide! Nikki finds out that her crush Brandon volunteers at a local animal shelter. He's such a sweet guy - of course he wants to help those adorable puppies! Then Brandon tells her that the shelter is in danger of closing, and Nikki knows she...
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  • NEXUS
    NEXUS
    YUVAL NOAH HARARI
    For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. International and political tensions are rising. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI - an alien information network that threatens to annihi...
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  • A MASTER OF DJINN
    A MASTER OF DJINN
    P. DJÈLÍ CLARK
    WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL 'Clever, wickedly fun . . . with an excellent balance of humour and heart. I loved it' S. A. Chakraborty, author of The City of Brass Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she's certainly n...
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  • GIFTED AND TALENTED
    GIFTED AND TALENTED
    OLIVIE BLAKE
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Succession meets magic in Gifted & Talented by Olivie Blake. This is the story of three siblings who, upon the death of their father, are forced to reckon with their long-festering rivalries, dangerous abilities and the crushing weight of all their unrealized adolescent potential. Where there's a will, there's a war. ...
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  • ORWELL IN SPAIN
    ORWELL IN SPAIN
    GEORGE ORWELL
    Including Homage to Catalonia 'Spain not only defined Orwell as an individual, it also gave him his first glimpse of totalitarianism' D. J. Taylor, Guardian George Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War had a transformative effect on his life and work. This volume brings together his complete writings on the war, including Homage to Catalonia, his searing memoir of fighti...
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  • THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN
    THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN
    E. M. CIORAN
    'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.' In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence- birth, death, God, the passing of time, how to relate to others and how to make ourselves get out of bed in the morning. In a series of interlinking aphorisms which are at once pessim...
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  • THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR'S NATURE WALK
    THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR'S NATURE WALK
    ERIC CARLE
    Explore the great outdoors with The Very Hungry Caterpillar! In this engaging search-and-find board book, young readers will be challenged to find various animals on a nature walk with The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Count the creatures hidden on each spread and discover all there is to see in nature. Lace up those hiking boots, grab some binoculars, and get ready for an adventu...
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  • THE DEATH OF JESUS
    THE DEATH OF JESUS
    J. M. COETZEE
    A masterful new novel completes an incomparable trilogy from J. M. Coetzee, Nobel laureate and two-times winner of the Booker PrizeIn The Childhood of Jesus, Simòn found a boy, David, and they began life in a new land, together with a woman named Inès. In The Schooldays of Jesus, the small family searched for a home in which David could thrive.In The Death of Jesus, David, now ...
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  • THE TOWER OF THE SWALLOW
    THE TOWER OF THE SWALLOW
    ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI
    Ciri, the child of prophecy, has vanished. Hunted by friends and foes alike, she has taken on the guise of a petty bandit and lives free for the first time in her life. But the net around her is closing. Geralt, the Witcher, has assembled a group of allies determined to rescue her. Both sides of the war have sent brutal mercenaries to hunt her down. Her crimes have made her fam...
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  • EARLY SPANISH CARTOGRAPHY OF THE NEW WORLD
    EARLY SPANISH CARTOGRAPHY OF THE NEW WORLD
    EDWARD LUTHER STEVENSON
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wo...
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  • THE TENTH MAN
    THE TENTH MAN
    GRAHAM GREENE
    In a prison in Occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves - and for rich lawyer Louis Chavel, it seems that his whole life has been leading up to an agonizing and crucial failure of nerve. Hysterical with a sense of injustice, he offers to barter everything he owns for someone to take his place. ...
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  • WICKED
    WICKED
    GREGORY MAGUIRE
    Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald green skin - no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or to overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. But Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters the univers...
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  • SPAIN
    SPAIN
    MICHAEL REID
    An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond Spain's transition to democracy after Franco's long dictatorship was widely hailed as a success, ushering in three decades of unprecedented progress and prosperity. Yet over the past decade its political consensus has been under severe strain. A stable two-party system has spli...
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  • STOLEN HEIR
    STOLEN HEIR
    SOPHIE LARK
    Love is the one thing you can't steal. Nessa Griffin leads a lonely life. Too compassionate and gentle for the underworld business she grew up in, she fills no role in her family's mafia empire, struggling to prove herself both at home and in her highly competitive ballet corps. Mikolaj Wilk is the most vicious gangster in Chicago, and he's hellbent on revenge. His adoptive f...
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  • THE LITTLE GUIDE TO ABBA
    THE LITTLE GUIDE TO ABBA
    ORANGE HIPPO!
    ABBA blasted their way onto the global pop scene with a Eurovision Song Contest win in 1974. The song, 'Waterloo', the band's tenth single, was a top 10 hit around the world and spurred them on to enormous chart success with singles, then albums, then compilations selling in the millions. They truly conquered the world, recording, touring, performing and entertaining huge crowd...
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  • TOO FAMOUS
    TOO FAMOUS
    MICHAEL WOLFF
    Barbed, witty, revealing and entertaining, Too Famous could be an instant classic. Bestselling author of Fire and Fury, Siege and Landslide and chronicler of the Trump White House Michael Wolff dissects more of the major monsters, media moguls and vainglorious figures of our time. His scalpel opens their lives, careers and always equivocal endgames with the same vividness and ...
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  • THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY
    THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY
    ELIF SHAFAK
    The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, internationally bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World ***** There Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times, about love and loss, memory and erasure, hurt and healing, centred around three enchanting characters living on th...
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  • THE BEACH
    THE BEACH
    ALEX GARLAND
    Celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Beach, a classic story of paradise found - and lost, the book that inspired the major film starring Leonardo DiCaprio Richard lands in East Asia in search of an earthly utopia. In Thailand, he is given a map promising an unknown island, a secluded beach - and a new way of life. What Richard finds when he gets there is breathtaking: more ext...
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  • MUSINGS AT MONT BLANC
    MUSINGS AT MONT BLANC
    ROSALINDA RUIZ SCARFUTO
    Musing at Mont Blanc dives into the deep crevices of the European Alps with inspiring glaciers and the rare beauty of two women, 200 years apart, confronting their intimate relationship with the natural world for unexpected outcomes. Mary Shelley Wollstonecraft created Dr. Frankenstein and Rosalinda discovered the unique landscape that inspired the novel, whilst creating her ow...
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